AI Engineer

🕒 September 11

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote

💵 $115k - $130k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🤖 AI Engineer

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Aptima

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1995

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Aptima is at the forefront of revolutionizing how humans learn, train, and work by leveraging advanced artificial intelligence technologies. Their mission is to optimize human performance through the thoughtful design and engineering of human-centered AI systems. With projects like the Sidekick Training Accelerator™, they automate and enhance training development by utilizing generative AI and large language models. Aptima collaborates with entities such as the US Navy to produce AI solutions that accelerate training development, showcasing their expertise at events like I/ITSEC. Their initiatives focus on enhancing human capabilities within the age of AI by addressing training, learning, and readiness challenges.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and apply advanced AI and machine learning models for complex, mission-critical problems • Fine-tune large language models, build computer vision systems, and integrate multimodal AI solutions • Design and develop AI and software systems that classify and measure human states using multimodal sensor approaches • Apply data mining, statistical analysis, machine learning, computational modeling, and digital signal processing methods • Collaborate with software engineers in an agile development environment • Implement, test, and apply mathematical algorithms from research • Design and implement scientific and technical aspects of projects and proposals • Lead technical tasks under projects and proposals, delivering timely, high-quality work • Produce technical reports, proposals, presentations, and published papers • Support senior staff with proposals, capabilities briefs, software or meeting materials, software integration/installation, and customer meetings • Conduct professional development and background research related to project needs • Present work at professional conferences and in professional publications

🎯 Requirements

• Active US Government Security Clearance • Minimum of 3–5 years of relevant work experience • Demonstrated technical and leadership ability to take on this level of requirements • General understanding of multiple technical domains relevant to Aptima, with a primary specialty integrated with other domains • Ability to apply engineering technical skills, principles, and heuristics to high-quality, customer-responsive, contractually compliant, timely plans and products • Moderate proficiency in ML/AI software development practices • Object-oriented programming experience in Python, Java, or C# • Modular code design experience • Experience transitioning exploratory notebooks to maintainable, production-ready packages • Foundational understanding of machine learning techniques, including deep learning, feature extraction, and embedding application • Experience building computational models from large datasets • Skills assessed during interview process • Experience with NLP, LLMs, agentic workflows, or computer vision is a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Professional development through conferences, reading, and project-related education • Opportunities to present work at professional conferences and in professional publications • Collaboration with AI researchers and software engineers • Opportunity to work on mission-critical national security and defense applications